Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk

Wichert Akkerman (wichert@cistron.nl)
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:34:57 +0100


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Previously Khimenko Victor wrote:
> You gave way not enough information to gave you wise answer (what version=
of
> kernel you are using, what motherboard, what version of hdparm, etc, etc).

Kernel: 2.2.14pre11. hdparm version 3.6. Motherboard is an Intel SE440BX.

> Try to do the following:
>=20
> # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/hda bs=3D512 count=3D1
>=20
> Then reboot. This way you'll destroy partition table completely and kernel
> will not try to use it to determine size of disk.

Already tried that, it doesn't help. That was actually the very first
thing I tried..

Wichert.

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